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We all know the robot revolution is coming and that it’s going to impact a huge number of jobs in pretty much every industry you can name. Factory workers who sew clothing, for example, could be replaced by Sewbots.

SoftWear Automation’s (see what they did there?) robot can sew circles around its flesh-and-bone competition. It’s so fast that a single unit can produce as many t-shirts in an hour as 17 skilled humans. In an eight-hour work day, a SewBot can churn out 1,142 shirts… with help from just a single person.

You can tell from the picture that a SewBot consumes a fair amount of floor space, but certainly a lot less than what 17 workers and their individual sewing setups would. Being able to crank out more goods in less space and reducing the number of machines that require maintenance will no doubt make SewBots very popular with factory owners.

They’ll probably also see fewer work-related mishaps that result in lost productivity, what with fewer of us accident-prone humans working around sharp, fast-moving machinery.

Chinese clothing manufacturing giant Tianyuan Garments is certainly intrigued. They’re getting ready to open a 100,000 square foot factory in Little Rock, Arkansas that will feature 21 SewBots. They’ll be able to produce around 1.2 million t-shirts a year.

Until now, a company like Tianyuan Garments probably wouldn’t have considered opening a U.S.-based facility because of high labor costs. According to a report from Quartz, those costs could amount to as much as $7.47 for a single shirt. SewBots can turn them out for just 33 cents each, which is marginally more expensive than having shirts sewn by hands in Bangladesh.

That will no doubt lead to a whole lot more “Made In The U.S.A.” tags on t-shirts, though it means new factory jobs for about two dozen Americans instead of 330-plus. On the plus side, SoftWear will certainly need a few good servicemen and women to keep things running smoothly and assembly line workers to turn out more SewBots as other clothing manufacturers look to bring manufacturing operations Stateside.